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Latest Pasture stories on ABC North West Qld

Mining is booming in northern Australia but with most of the Northern Territory taken up by pastoral leases, it was only a matter of time before exploration companies started peering over the farm gate....

A consortium including some of the country's biggest outback graziers is preparing to lodge an all-Australian bid for the massive cattle empire S Kidman and Co this weekend - and that it will be offering more than Gina Rinehart and her Chinese business partner, a sum likely to be around $385 ...

A bitter feud is intensifying in Queensland between the government and farmers over tree-clearing rates. The State Government has released the results of its 2014-15 Statewide Land Cover and Tree Study, which shows that almost 300,000 hectares of vegetation was removed in the 12 months covered ...